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tense moments in the district this morning. 911 service is restored after the system failed, pushing folks to use an alternative number for close to two hours. we've got the details. a search is on for a missing boy in prince george's county. important details about how you can help. >> loud explosion and everyone started freaking out and screaming. >> close to 100 passengers are safe after a major engine problem on a southwest airlines flight. news 4 today starts now. we begin with that breakng
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this morning. now, officials say it went down about midnight. it was fully restored around 1:30 this morning. official have still not said why that system went down. we'll stay on top of that story for you as it develops this morning. thank you for joining us on this sunday. i'm adam tuss. >> good morning, everybody, i'm meagan fitzgerald in for angie goff. tom kierein has the latest on our continuing heat wave. good morning. i'm happy to report not as humid as it has been the last few days. we do have a little patchy fog in some of the rural areas starting off early on this sunday morning. we're a half ahour away from the sun rise. we've got a few clouds drifting over the metro area. sun will be breaking out and as the day progresses, we'll get
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increasing sunshine. temperatures are comfortable. we're down in the low to mid 60s, shenandoah valley, blue ridge and into the mountains. prince george's, montgomery, fairfax county, in the 60s. mid 70s right in town. right around the chesapeake bay, mid 70s. hour by hour, we'll jump up into the low 80s. mostly sunny. 2:00, upper 80s, near 90 by 3:00, 4:00. by 6:00, down to the upper 80s and 10:00 p.m., low 80s. a look at our week ahead. our next chances for rain is coming up in a few minutes. >> tom, thank you. now to a developing story in southeast. if you've been without hour for several hours, you might have to wait a little more. a water main break occurred. crews were supposed to fix the problem six hours
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and they will have to cop it down. concerns are growing for a missing boy. he's 3'10" tall, weighs 60 pounds. alexis rivera. he was last seen on 18th avenue in hyattsville. charges are pending against a man who hit a police cruiser yesterday. the trooper was conducting a traffic stop when his car was hit. the car that hit the trooper flipped over and caught fire. the trooper was able to pull shannon out of that car. another metro safe track surge to tell you about and it has started and that means you should get ready for more delays this week. the blue and yellow lines in virginia are affected by safe
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starting tomorrow, trains will single track between stations during the workweek. the work should wrap up september 11th. and later this morning, we've got an emergency drill on the yellow line. it's going to cause some delays there. service will be suspended between la font plaza and the pentagon station. it will simulate a drill assignment. more than 100 emergency crews will practice rescue techniques. hillary clinton is off the campaign trail today but yesterday in new york she did receive her first intelligence briefing as a nominee. clinton doesn't have any public events. not the case for her running mate, senator tim kaine. he's staying busy. he spent time in the key battleground state in florida yesterday slamming donald trump's statements about our
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between a hi alliances and donald trump who seems to think tearing up alliances is a path to strength. >> he went on to criticize his outreach to african-american voters saying he's out of touch. mike pence spent part of the day in loudon county. he says it starts with lowering taxes. >> streamline deductions and lower taxes across the board for every american. we're going to lower taxes on businesses large and small so companies in virginia can compete with companies all over the world. >> now, recent polls in virginia show trump and pence facing an
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a college p clinton up double digits earlier this week. and with just over ten weeks until the election, both presidential candidates are using the same strategy. keep the focus on their opponent. nbc's jacob rasmussen has the latest. >> reporter: locked in a dead heat in the heart land, donald trump targeting hillary clinton's record with minorities. >> how quickly people have forgotten that hillary clinton called black youth super predators. hillary clinton is a bigot! >> hillary rodham clinton has said ugly things too. i wish both would tone it down and focus on policy. >> the senator is sponsoring the roast and ride event in des moines. >> you need to talk to trump and tell him to lm
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>> what would he have to do to get your vote? >> he's got to change how he talks to people. >> ten days into the campaign reset, trump's minority outreach repeatedly criticized as tone deaf. >> to the african-american parents, you have a right to walk down the street of your city without having your child or yourself shot. >> after the fatal shooting of nba star dwayne wade's cousin, just what i've been saying. african-americans will vote trump. >> so we send our thoughts and prayers to the family. >> trump talking immigration policy. >> we're going to build a great wall on the border and we're going to nationwide everify, stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements. nbc's chuck todd will have
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on "meet the press" later this morning at 10:30. he will sit down with reince priebus. time now is 6:08 in northern virginia. several groups came together in an effort to stop domestic violence. it takes a village expo is inspired by the death of cristina fisher. her ex-boyfriend is charged in her death. organizers told news 4 they want to make sure the community knows what resources are available to them. >> whether people want to admit it or not, everyone watching this has been affected by domestic violence. they just haven't done anything by it. they will continue to be affected by it. >> the loudon county sheriff's office and women's shelter were on hand to provide information to those who needed it. they also accepted clothing donations for women at that shelter. arlington county
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are saying good-bye to summer. activities includes bounce houses, safety demonstrations for people of all ages, police say the goal of the party is to bring community and law enforcement together. and we've got another hot day on tap but how long will the high temps last? that's the question. tom has got the answers after this break. and we're hearing from more passengers about that southwest airlines flight that was diverted after an engine problem. they are going to tell you about the very scary moments in the
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welcome back, the death of a yellowstone national park employee is under investigation this morning. officials say 21-year-old tumbled from the edge of a canyon on friday. she was a park concession employee from ecuador. the grand
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1,200 feet deep. the plane loses part of its engine while it's in the air. the engine falls off while in the air. the explosion sparked fears of a terror abeing at that. nbc has the latest. >> reporter: passengers say it sounded like an explosion. >> we were kind of zoned out and all of a sudden it was that huge loud noise. >> it happened saturday morning, 20 minutes after take-off. flight airlines flight 3472 from new orleans to orlando forced to make an emergency pensacola, flax after losing one of its engine. >> was it right or the left engine and fuel and souls on board if you can give that to me. >> the passenger shows the engine was missing. >> i saw metal flapping and i knew something was wrong. >> there were 95 passengers and five crew members on board. no one was injured. >> ih
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explosion and eveone started freaking out and screaming. >> southwest called it a mechanical issue with the engine. they bought the plane in 2007. >> we were great and watched over and good pilots. >> the airplane has been taken out of service and the ntsb is investigating. passengers were flown from pensacola to orlando in a replacement plane yesterday afternoon. southwest said it's refunding money and providing each person with a $500 voucher. >> that's a scary thing to think about being part of it. it's going to be hot today. we wore red to match the weather. >> we knew it was going to hot. why not? you did too, tom, look. we're color coordinated. >> it's not as humid. that's the good news. it's pleasant now. we're down into the 60s. a little bit of patchy fog in
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storm team 4 city camera overlooking washington. just a few clouds passing over monday yumts. comfortable as we start off this morning. there's a little bit of haze in the air. that's a live view overlooking capitol hill. by 10:00, low 80s. by 2:00 we'll be in the upper 80s and getting around 90 degrees in 3:00, 4:00, warm and dry 6:00 p.m., down to the upper 80s. low 80s later on tonight. back down to the mid 70s by dawn on monday. right now we're in the 60s. beautiful morning down into the 60s for the mountains all the way into the rural areas. maryland and virginia, right downtown mid 70s. mid 70s right around the chesapeake bay on this sunday morning. don't have any showers anywhere in the region. great morning for a run or a bike ride, get some exercise in. the rest of the coming week, we'll have the heat continuing with afternoon
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monday, getting back to w clouds around, moderate humidity on monday and tuesday. tuesday and wednesday will be up around 90 degrees. our next chance of some needed rain may be late wednesday afternoon into wednesday evening and it's a small chance, only 30, 40% chance, but a chance otherwise maybe a little thunder and lightning, but nonetheless some welcome possibilities of showers maybe lingering into thursday midday and turning cooler, highs mid 80s thursday afternoon. low 80s on friday, saturday, into the labor day weekend. sun look nice. partly cloudy into the mid 80s and on labor day itself up around 90 degrees, gets hot as we get into the first full week of september. that's the way it looks. >> we've got reporters notebook coming up next. >> we'll be back in 15 minutes with more of the day's top stories. i'm aaron gilchrist and welcome to "reporters notebook. "the school year is
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running in many areas. we have our veteran reporters tom sherwood and tracee wilkins here with us. prince george's county, the head start program is making headlines lately because the federal government has come in and said we're pulling more than $6 million from the program in prince george's county. what's behind that? >> a lot of problems within the program itself. evidently there had been an ongoing federal investigation looking into these issues with head start. so accusations of abuse. we had one situation where a child was forced to mop his own urine in front of his classroom in his soaken pants while the teacher took pictures of it and laughed at him. another allegation of a child holding boxes over his head with another student acting up during nap time, it had heavy books. and a child wandering around and 75 minutes away from the
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government. we don't believe you've fixed it and because of that, we're take being the funding away and that's what happened. >> there are thousands of kids in maryland, in the program that get help kids. are they going to kill a program because of the individual instances? are there management issues extending beyond these incidents? >> well, there are issues just beyond this incident. it appears to the federal government that head start in prince george's county is incapable of organizing itself. we discovered in a report this week that there were also some issues before with administration doing things like criminal background checks and et cetera. so these incidents are considered egregious and they have been given an opportunity to correct them and any parent would agree this is incredible. so what they now have to do is see what their options are going to be moving forward. but it's not so much killing the
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government can do -- >> federal government rarely kills programs. >> they give that money to private head start programs. >> as i understand, they can move -- this is neushul -- unusual, they can move it from the schools to a different agency or somewhere else -- >> and there are other head starts that aren't run by p prince george's county. >> the school system said they are still qog to -- going to open it up. they say they have enough money to get started. the ceo said we're going to take care of this. peemt who need to be held accountable, we will held accountable. forceful but not detailed. do we know what the detail is for him going forward? >> the prince george's county school system has a large budget so the idea is they are going to move some money around, they will find a way to make it happen, they are determined to make sure that kids
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the county executive has made it clear that he is absolutely dedicated to that. >> at the same time you have board members who are calling for the chair and vice chair to step down because they feel they have not been kept in the loop and maybe they could have headed it off. >> yes. this is a story we broke this week that we have five members on that board of education saying they want the chair and the vice chair taken off of the board. they want the county executive to be the one to remove them because he appointed both of them to those seats and they are saying that they knew about this investigation. they were not transparent. they did not talk to the board about it and because of that the board wasn't given the opportunity to do what we were talking about earlier and that is going in and doing some measuring, you know, doing some accountability, having some reports and some folks to go in and come back to them and let them know how things have been improved because they were in darkness. they couldn't act as a board. >> this has been
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since last spring, i think th is going to start and it's up to the county executive to make sure that it continues, because we're not talking some casual program. these are families that need -- that's why head start is there. it's a lot of -- a huge program across the nation, so they have to fix it. they can't throw the kids into the street. >> it's head start to give these kids a head start. these are children who have to financially qualify for the program, and the whole idea is that when they get into kindergarten they are where they are supposed to be and it's a shame that their introduction to education would this form of abuse and it is scaring every parent who has a child in that program. d.c., has a new high school that's all boys school, ron brown college prep academy and a lot of fan fare last week as it opened up, social media and pictures all over the place and a lot of talk about these young
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grade year. >> this is a big chance. for all the school improvements the system has done, she says we still have a problem with young african-american males. >> and latino males. >> and latino males and they needed a school where they could get guys into a school system, give them incredible structure, and she says it's a terrific program. it's going to work for them, and the aclu complains wait a minute, this is discriminate tory, you don't have one for young women and girls who have these needs. i asked ms. henderson about this. she said we're aware there is a need for girls and this is a crisis situation for boys. we needed the school and we needed the school now. >> what's the big difference. they pulledu
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>> you have >> what's the difference between this and a regular comprehensive high school? what's the program difference that will make the difference in these young men's lives? >> in this case, you put these young men in a controlled environment. there won't be suspensions. it will be really rare if they have a suspension. these young men will be told to face their issues, apologize when necessary when they misbehave. it will be structuring their lives. that's the concern is they can't learn in school, almost like head start that tracee just mentioned, you've got to give them the foundation to structure their lives and that's what the school is going to do. they are going to have academic and social training. if it works, it's it will be a terrific program. you mentioned the new chancellor or the chancellor will be leaving the middle of september and a new one coming on board, john davis acting in the interimap
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>> and he could get the s we liked, but we don't know that yet. >> what's happening with that? there's going to be a search? >> there is a search. there's an ongoing search. for mayor bowser who is running for election in 2018, that campaign will start in 2017 next year. she wants someone in both of those jobs who can come in and keep moving forward and not have to spend a lot of time learning the city, learning the process, and that's going to be important who the new chancellor is. since michelle reid was the deputy, now henderson has been there, they need to move forward, to keep the progress going, the mayor says. we want to get a little break in here quickly. i'll ask you about immunizations in prince george's county when we come back. you are watching
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welcome back to "reporters notebook." i want to talk about the i immunization program in prince george's county school. >> we broke the story this week that once again they are starting the school year with an obnoxious number of students who have not been immunized. i was speaking with the director who told me this is not necessarily meaning -- that number doesn't mean they haven't had their immunizations, some of this has to do something with paperwork. new students coming into the system and them trying to figure out who has had their shots, who hasn't. there is a major issue with prince george's county getting their documentati t
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things as important as shots and there's also a problem with parents doing what they are supposed to do to get their kids i am must sunrised. we were told there were a number of things they were going to do. they were going to bring back nurses earlier. the theory is if they did, they could get these i mmunizations done. they didn't bring them back all the nurses. a small portion, just a week before school started and there were nonprofit organizations like mary center, we were told they were going to partner with them, there were some first generation americans who aren't getting the message to do it. they didn't do that work either. >> free clinics this summer? >> they did have some clinic. it sounds like the numbers were pretty low, the turnout to those clinics but they did provide that and there were lots of messages, get the
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sunrise -- immunized. >> and in the meantime you've had kids miss a couple of days of school and it could be weeks more and fall behind. >> they could get a message that goes home to their parent or guardian saying your kid won't be able to come to school if you don't do that. a lot of parents and guardians do that right away when you face deadlines like us, they face a deadline, they get it done. >> but there's no -- nobody is going to show up your door and take your kid if you missed deadline. >> we don't know exactly how many children were turned away. we were told a large portion of them were told they couldn't start school. last year, they extended it a few weeks to give them kids an opportunity to get the shots. what's interesting about all this the state doesn't mandate any of it where the school system is facing any kinded of punish many for the parents not doing the right thing and the oversight is minimal so while it is very important that these kids get their sh t
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an overall arching issue with how this is taken care of. >> this is a problem in other places, but it, you know, 6,000 students, that's a lot of students. and when montgomery comes obline in charles county, we're doubtful we'll see the same numbers there that we've seen in prince george's county. the city is now looking for a new police chief. kathy lanier will leave on september 17th. >> mayor bouser says she wants someone who will be able to step in and run the department. the mayor doesn't want a police chief who has to look at a map to find their way in and out of the district of
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he's well liked. p a big force of almost 4,000 officers. the mayor wants someone who can address any issues of crime. kathy lanier, whether officers liked her or not, she was very good. she was rank high on public opinion polls. i think the delegate to congress only ranked higher. you just go around town with her, people swarm her because she was well liked. the next chief has to have that public relations ability to talk to people. the police union said people are thrilled that kathy lanier is leaving. is there -- does the next police chief has to have a better relationship with the ramping-and-file. >> they did not get a raise for something like five years when they finally got a
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pete new -- some told me he's going to be a very visible. he's going to keep it going. he hopes to get appointed to the job. >> i want to ask about the prince george's hospital center and the nicu issue they were having. any progress being made? >> they got to figure out how they got pseudomonas bacteria in the water system of the hospital which is not impacting the water outside of the hospital but it is an issue within two areas of the hospital. the goal is to clean it up, get those babies from children's hospital back to prince george's as soon as possible, but for right now, parents or mothers who are pregnant with high risk pregnancies are being transported and stabilized, taken someplace else to have their baby. >> a lot more questions to be
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tracee and tom, thank you for joining us. news 4 continues in a moment. time right now is 6:32 on your sun morning. d.c.'s 911 system back up after an outage this morning. officials haven't said why the system went out of service. police are asking for your help in finding a 12-year-old boy. alexis rivera was last seen on 18th avenue in hyattsville and a southwest airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing when part of the engine fell off the plane. no one was hurt on the saturday morning flight from new orleans to orlando. good sunday morning to you. i'm adam tuss. megan fitzgerald is in here for angie goff. we're going to kick off another half hour of the news with
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check of the weather. >> hi, tom. >> we've got a beautiful morning under way. if you slept with the window open, you feel a cool breeze coming in. there's some humidity hanging in the air, but not as humid. there's a live view from our storm team 4 tower camera overlooking northeast washington, prince george's county on the horizon. sun rise a couple minutes away at 6:34. we're in the 60s from the mountains all the way to the bay, right on the waters mid 70s and downtown it's in the mid 70s as well. hour-by-hour, through the rest of the day we'll in the lower 80s by 10:00. upper 80s by 2:00, and 6:00 p.m., upper 80s and finally tonight, back down to the low 80s. we need some rain. we'll look at our next chances for rain coming up in the next half hour. it is the last day of summer vacation for thousands of students. tomorrow, school is back in
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calvert, charles, and montgomery counties in maryland, and loudon, prince william and manassas in virginia. while you may have bought the supplies, did you remember that back-to-school hair cut? that's the question. if not, you can get the kids a free one there. alexander de paris beauty spa center is cutting hair cuts for kids. donations are encouraged, all the money goes to pantene beautiful women for wigs. it happened at a building on taft court in rockville yesterday afternoon, montgomery county fire and rescue says a man was working on a bobcat when the machine suddenly lurched forward and went into the trench. the man was not hurt but it took two hours for crews to get him out safely. two people are
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nearly back-to-back crashes wto. one crash happened in district heights when a driver of an suv hit a toyota camera. the other crash involved a motorcycle and nissan sentra in oxon hill. if you have any information about the crashes, contact police. we're learning more about the shooting death of dwayne wade's cousin. nbc's morgan radford has more. >> we might have a person shot over here. >> reporter: hot shell casings on the ground and a community reeling once again. >> it's like there's no end to it. it keeps going on and on and on. >> reporter: a weep mother lea
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support. >> a baby shot once in the head, and once in the arm. >> possibly a female black. she might be shot in the head. aldridge caught in the crossfire when two men aimed at a third. >> what i heard was the gunshots first. bang, bang, bang, bang. >> a scene all too common but this time gaining major attention after she was later identified as three-time nba champ and hometown hero dwayne wade. >> my cousin was killed today in chicago. four kids lost their mom for no reason. just a few days before, wade spoke to a panel about the violence. >> it's deep rooted. this is something that didn't start today or end tomorrow. >> her shooters are unidentified. her baby alive but alone, just one of huds
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become casualties chicago's violence. >> 449 people have been shot in chicago since the beginning of this year. almost half of them kids. shot while doing every day kid stuff, riding with dad on fathers day or even drawing on the sidewalk or holding their mother's hand. >> it's a stunning, astonishing tragic number. this is genocide before our very eyes. we're turning to a deaf eye and blind -- ear and blind eye to it. >> as for nikia aldridge, a life taken too soon. turning now to colin kaepernick making headlines, he refused to stand during the national anthem. after the game, he said i'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag or country that oppresses bk
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nfl spokesman says players are encourage but not required to stand during the national anthem. dallas cowboys quarterback tony romo is expected to miss several weeks this season during a back injury. he broke a bone in his back in thursday's preseason game against the seattle seahawks. romo could miss six to ten weeks. rookie jack dak prescott is expected to start in his place. the threat of zika could be growing ahead of a storm. the rain could wash away pesticides that have been sprayed throughout the miami-dade area. mosquitos tend to breed in those standing water areas. homeowners could face $1,000 fine if they allow standing water on their properties. more than 40 cases of zika have been reported across florida. mar
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on the lincoln memorial to give his i have a dream speech. a brand-new drone law taking effect tomorrow. the time is 6:39.
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good morning, thighs final days of august. we've got great weather for this afternoon. don't forget the sun block. it will be 90 degrees. noernt on monday and tuesday, it will be hot. both up to near 90 degrees with moderate humidity. we could have some storms. continuing coverage this morning of the after math of the
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earthquake in italy. nearly 300 peo c hws continue to sift through the rubble, 35 of them were laid to rest in a mass funeral. nbc has more. >> reporter: italy buried its dead today. the youngest nine-year-old julia. she died shielding her four-year-old sister who lived. ♪ ♪ >> they gathered to grieve and to remember, to comfo, hold, and bid farewell. a sweltering gym transformed into a makeshift chapel, before the bodies were returned to their hometown for final gbs. -- good-byes. the search continues but hope is all but gone. among those who remain behind -- >> i don't think that the town will be anymore the town. finished. it came all down.
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hiyoungles and two cousins . they remain under the e younges 14. the town that with stood the test of time for centuries turned to rubble in an instant and now this sea of tents as all these people have to call home. the question is for how long. little soef fee i can't was born just three weeks before the quake. she won't remember the horror. her father will never forget. it was chaos he tells me. the walls crumbled. everything is gone. i was lucky he says. so many others died. but even here, life and light amid the destruction. and another week and another round of controversies on the campaign trail and both donald trump and hillary clinton are lashing out at each other. >> what else is new? joining us now to talk about all of it is moderator of "meet the press" c
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>> they didn't attack each other's mothers. >> but we still have time. >> plenty of time for that. >> listen, we had the shake-up in the trump campaign. he had his reversal on immigration. clinton and the clinton foundation. >> it feels they are both under siege here. trump 3.0. in some ways i could argue he did have a good week for him. he did seem like he was at least on message. he wanted to focus on the clintons as much as he could. he tied himself in a knot on immigration. it's an attempt to soften and at the same time, though, he's muddying the up the waters here. we went through with him before on abortion six months ago. he had five different immigration positions at some point this week, when it came to what do do about the undocumented immigrants in this country. and clinton, more emails are coming, more clinton foundation, and they can't get out of their
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>> we have threepoupl of months. kelly ann conway. very well respected. nobody seems to have control over his social media addiction, so he just sends out this tweet about dwayne wade's cousin. >> you can tell -- here it is in the trump campaign. trump 2.0 would not have allowed to have someone tell him that was an inappropriate tweet. trump 3.0, that was wrong, i'll delete it. for trump that's progress as a candidate. in a week where he was slamming hillary clinton saying she only views african-americans as votes, that tweet was about votes. not about condolences. they tried to clean it up which tells you he's listening to his new advisers,ut
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again, that's right,edia his ow. >> clinton has controversy about qid proceed -- qid pro quo, they have problem. >> it goes back to the coffee clachs in the white house back in the mid 90s. it does hurt her because it just doesn't allow her to clean up that and restore the trust that he's going to need if she wants to be able to govern successfully assuming she wins. >> her issue is trust. >> for trump it's temperment and for her it's trust. i think she's trying to basically say i'm not going to win the trust argument, i'm going to double down that he doesn't have the temperment. >> what do things look like in terms of numbers? obviously, these are the most
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sides here.ide of republicans, if republicans turn out -- >> this to me is what we don't know, this is the unintended consequence of this campaign, what is it going to do turnout? we've got a focus group that our partner did and 4 clinton people, 4 trump people, 4 undecided, they are unified on one thing. they think the campaign is completely disgusting. it means some people aren't going to show up to the polls. that scrambles numbers even more. >> many more months to go. >> you got it. >> chuck will be on top of it. >> many more hours to go. we've got a couple more hours. >> and you are on again at 10:30. >> no marathon, no olympics. >> "meet the press" every sunday at 10:30 right after news 4 today. the faa is cracking down on drones. starting
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flies an unmanned aircraft system must be licensed, even if you've been flying a drone for years, come monday you could face fines of more than $1,000. pilots must be over the age of 16, pass a multiple choice test and be vetted by the tsa. any drone over half a pound must be registered. the u.s. navy has a submarine sponsored by the first lady. $2.7 billion subwas delivered yesterday. it took five years to build. the u.s.s. illinois is named after first lady michelle obama's home state. the first lady will be involved in the lives of its sailors and their teams -- teams. today marks 53 years since martin luther king jr delivered his "i have a dream" speech in his march on
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a free public screening starts today at 5:00 p.m. a high school wanted to continue the progress of his speech called on for five decades ago. the national park services centennial celebration continues today. more than 400 parks across the country are offering free admission. there was a 1970s themed celebration at anacostia park stay pavilion yesterday. others are paying tribute to our national parks using virtual reality. we have a photo gallery that you can check out on the nbc washington app. you just have to search virtual reality. we are weeks away from one of the most anticipated museum openings in the district. the smithsonian african-american museum is opening on september 4th. the museum has an amazing collection of
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highlighting centuries of history peek inside the museum later this morning at 11:30 right here on news 4. this is a must-see. barbara harris son has your all access pass inside. time right now is 6:51. the other big story everybody wants to know about is the weather. >> the heat. the warm, warm heat. >> not too humid. the good news is the humidity levels have dropped a bit and it's pretty nice out right now. if you have plans, get out the morning run, maybe a hike, bike ride. national harbor, live view from our prince george's county camera, all calm and quiet there at national harbor. a tranquil scene. potomac river calm as a mill pond. you can see the haze hanging over capitol hill and temperatures at 10:00,
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82. 6:00, upper 80s. late afternoon, evening hours, temperatures dropping back down into the low 80s. right now, comfortable in the 60s for the mountains all the way to the bay but right on the waters and right downtown, we're in the mid 70s. don't have any showers anywhere on storm team 4 radar and school day forecast, back to school for most of the region tomorrow morning at the bus stop, it will be in the mid 70s with sunshine. by recess time tomorrow, you'll be comfortable with a t-shirt, kids, out on the play ground. it will be in the upper 80s. it will be pretty hot and pick up time by the time the schools will be letting out, it will be in the low 90s. love this picture of venus and jupiter, they are very close in the sky. we're not going to see them that close together until the year 2065. that was taken last night. upper 90s, monday, sd
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next month will mark 15 years since 9/11, and some sft brave men and women who helped save lives at the pentagon will return to the site to visit there. >> the iconic building in the background and what happened 15 years ago, those pictures are etched in the memories of the alexandria firefighters search-and-recovery teams and workers. >> first thing i noticed was the smoke coming up over the top of the trees. >> he was heading to a meeting. he never got to the meeting. >> i had a bag in my car. i stopped and grabbed that and started taking care of folks. >> things were still falling. smaller secondary explosions from the fire were going on. it's one of
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dream-like memories thatem h ground and some of the debrisem when rain first starts, you know, stuff falling and hitting the ground around you. >> they have come before the actual anniversary of the attack, but crowds are smaller. each time it's easy to frame up the photo. there are fewer of them, memori memories. this was mike cahill's first time at the memorial itself and still grappling with the enormity of what happened. >> there's a chapel at the point where the plane hit when they rebuilt it. i've been there. >> after the pictures, of them went inside to see what it's like now. in a way, these men and women haven't fully left this place after a decade and a half. >> a lot of pele
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on this sunday morning. i. a search is on for a missing boy in prince george's coty new detail on how you can help. loud explosion and everyone started freaking out and screaming. talk about a scare in the skies. close to 100 passenger are safe this morning after a major engine problem after an on a southwest airlines flight. news 4 today starts now. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm meetingen fitzgerald. tom kierein has the latest on our continuing heat wave. good morning. we are off to a very ples april start on this sun morning. sun is
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there's a fried und sday mornin. a few clouds rolling through on lower levels. patchy fog in some of the rural areas this morning. temperatures down in the 60s. pleasant morning to get up. close by, nearby neighborhoods, prince george's, general in the mid to upper 60s. mid 70s downtown. mid 70s right around the chesapeake bay. hour bis hour through the day, it will be in the low 80s. 2:00, upper 80s. sunshine through the day. then a clear evening coming up by 10:00 p.m., the low 80s. need some rain. look for our next chance for rain and storms coming up this half hour. i want to talk to you about that breaking news right now. about an hour from now, d.c. official will hold a news conference to talk about the 911 system outage that happened earlier this morning. the system is back up and running after it went down around midnight. sece
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about 1:30 developing story in southeast where it to take several more hours until crews fix a water main break. nine apartments, 30 homes and two hydrants on minnesota avenue between ridge road and e street. that's where the issue is. crews were supposed to have this repair down around 1:00 this morning, but the problem is near a large tree. officials aren't sure what caused the large leak. concerns are growing for a missing boy. his name is alexis rivera. he's 3'10" tall, weighs 60 pounds. he has glasses and a scar on his left hand. he was last seen on 18th avenue in hyattsville. charges are pending against a driver who crashed into a maryland state police cruiser yesterday. stephen shannon was hurt in the cr
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okay. now, police believe shannon was dr shannon out of that car. another met surge to tell you about and it means you should get ready for more delays this week. the blue and yellow lines are affected by safe track surge number 8. free shuttle buses will be in franconia today. starting tomorrow, trains will single track between stations during the workweek. the work should wrap up september 11th. and later this morning, we've got an emergency drill on the yellow line. it's going to cause some delays there. service will be suspended between
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she did receive her first intelligence briefing as nominee saturday in new york. while clinton doesn't have any public events today, her running mate, tim kaine, spent his time in the key battleground state in florida yesterday, slamming donald trump's statements about our allies. >> there is a sharp distinction between a hillary clinton who understands the value of alliances and donald trump who seems to think tearing up alliances is a path to strength. >> he went on to criticize his outreach to african-american voters saying he's out of touch. mike pence spent part of the day in loudon county. he pushed trump's plan to improve the economy. he says it starts wit
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taxes. o end death taxes ctions once and for all. we're going to lower taxes on businesses large ananies in vir compete with companies all over the world. >> now, recent polls in virginia show trump and pence facing an uphill battle in the state. a college poll found clinton up double digits earlier this week. and with just over ten weeks until the election, both presidential candidates are using the same strategy. keep the focus on their opponent. nbc has the latest. >> reporter: locked in a dead heat in the heart land, donald trump targeting hillary clinton's record with minorities. >> how quickly people have forgotten that hillary clinton called black youth super predators. >> reporter: the rhetoric boiling over in recent days. hillary clinton is a bigot!
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>> >> hillary rodham clinton has said ugly things too. i wish both would tone it down and focus on policy. >> the senator is sponsoring the roast and ride event in des moines. many bikers solidly behind trump. others say they wish he will throttle back. >> you need to talk to trump and tell him to calm it down. >> what would he have to do to get your vote? >> he's got to change how he talks to people. >> ten days into the campaign reset, trump's minority outreach repeatedly criticized as tone deaf. >> to the african-american parents, you have a right to walk down the street of your city without having your child or yourself shot. >> after the fatal shooting of nba star dwayne wade's cousin, trump tweeted, just what i've been saying. african-americans will vote trump. >> so we send our thoughts and prayers to the family. >> trump unexpectedly talking immigratioli
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wall on the border and we're n e-verify, stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements. nbc's chuck todd will have all the latest in decision 2016 on "meet the press" later this morning at 10:30. he will sit down with reince priebus. time right now is 7:08. in northern virginia, several groups came together in an effort to stop domestic violence. it takes a village expo is inspired by the death of cristina fisher. she was shot and killed in her leesburg home in april. her ex-boyfriend is charged in her death. he's been ordered by a court to stay away from her. organizers told news 4 they want to make sure the community knows what resources are available to them. >> whether people want to admit it or not, everyone watching this has been affected by domestic violence.
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on hand to provide information to those who wanted it. they also accepted clothing donations for women at that shelter. arlington county officials helping the community to say good-bye to summer. can you believe it? they hosted their second annual summer block party yesterday at kenmore middle school. activities includes bounce houses, safety demonstrations for people of all ages, police say the goal of the party is to bring community and law enforcement together. and we've got another hot day on tap but how long will the high temps last? tom has got the forecast when we re e back. passengers about that southwest airlines flight that was diverted after an engine problem. they are going to recount the tsry scary momen in the sky.
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welcome back, the death of a yellowstone national park employee is under investigation this morning. officials say 21-year-old tumbled from the edge of a canyon on friday. she was a park concession employee from ecuador. the grand canyon of the yellowstone river is about 800 to 1,200 feet deep. >> this is pretty scary. a plane loses part of its engine while it's in the air. part of the engine falls off. one passenger said the explosion sparked fears of a terrorist attack. nbc has the latest. >> reporter: passengers say it sounded like an explosion. >> we were kind of zoned out and all of a sudden it was that huge loud noise. >> reporter: it happened saturday morning, about 20 minutes after take-off. southwest airlines flight 3472 new orleans to orlando forced to make an emergency landing in
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pe engine. >> was it right or the left engine and fuel and souls on board if you can give that to me. >> it's the left engine. >> passenger shows the front of the engine was missing. a gash in the fuselage. >> i saw metal flapping and i knew something was wrong. >> there were 95 passengers and five crew members on board. no one was injured. >> i thought it was a terrorist attack, and it was that loud explosion and everyone started freaking out and screaming. >> southwest called it a mechanical issue with the number onegine. the airline bought the plane in 2000. >> we were great and watched over and good pilots. >> the airplane has been taken out of service and the ntsb is investigating. passengers were flown from pensacola to orlando in a replacement plane yesterday afternoon. southwest said it's refunding money and providing each person with a $500 voucher.
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let's open up the window. fu us with the latest on the forecast in a s holl start ringing tomorrow. find out how you can
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monday for thousands ofdemo g, in the mid 70s. then by recess time, it's going to be pretty hot. we'll be in the upper 80s and by dismissal time, by pick up time, temperatures tomorrow after will be climbing into the low 90s. so a hot start to the school year for some students on monday. a look at our next chances for any storms, that's coming up in a few minutes. thank you, tom. and it's the last day of summer for thousands of students. tomorrow classes begin for kids and teachers in calvert, charles, montgomery county, and loudon and in print george's. while you may have bought their supplies, did you remember that fresh hair cut? today you can get the kids hair cuts for free.
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kids. for women re encouraged, all with cancer. cool. a d.c. man wrapped up an emotional cross country bike ride this week. he did it in memory of his teenage son who took his own life. we have more on his ride and the challenges he faced along the way. >> it feels great to be back home. >> reporter: he's home from a 3,200-mile bike ride. he called it awareness to to teenage suicide and depression. >> since his passing. we're still going to do it any way. i grabbed his ashes with me and carried them from seattle to washington. >> his son took his own life at the age of 16 in july of last year. his body was found
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anacostia river. >> ii have done it together. >> during the ride, he reflected on his son and the thousands of teens battling depression, especially those who have succumbed to their illness. >> to me, it's important that i finish for them, you know, because they weren't able to finish their ride. >> reporter: he saw their rides up and downs as metaphors for life, something he would have shared with his son and would like to pass on to youth facing mental health challenges. >> i had to deal with mechanical issues, personal injuries. but that's life. >> he had his own struggles along the way. he lost a front tooth and sprained his wrist when he crashed his bike. >> i'm flying off my bike and i landed on my mouth. >> pedaling on to the finish was never a second thought. plenty of family members were waiting for him, now that he's home, he wants to continue to spread his message. >> suicide is
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>> in the district, darc>> t's the weather, tom. is it going to be oppressive today? >> not too bad. the humidity has dropped a bit. pleasant start right now. here's a live view from the storm team 4 tower camera. there's the national cathedral on this sunday morning. got a few clouds drifting through. there's a little bit of patchy fog some of the rural areas this morning. temperatures are pleasant. in the 60s from the mountains to the bay. right on the water, mid 70s. 75 at reagan national. mid to sup -- upper 60s nearby suburbs. no rain anywhere from the atlantic beaches awm the way
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to the olalpicture. they was taken this morning along skyline drive by jen johnson posted on my twitter page. i love sharing them on television and sharing them with you on line as well. and nats park today, the scene of another day game as they take on the rockies. first pitch is at 1:35. another hot day for baseball at nats park. temperatures as you are arriving there at the park will be in the mid 80s and by around the 7th inning will be up around 90 degrees and back down to the upper 80s. have a hat if you are in the sunny areas. low 90s on monday. near 90 on tuesday with partly cloudy sky both of those days. next chance of any rain looks to be on wednesday, maybe the afternoon
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some thundershowerco the way to labor day weekend. that' the way it looks. >> i can't believe summer is over. unbelievable. all right. coming up, sheriff's deputies make a connection with teens in one local county. how it's helping the kids and it's a great day for an adventure. surprises are hiding around each corner. come chase thrills that lead in every direction. yet somehow bring us all back together. busch gardens williamsburg and water country usa. vacation packages start at $50 per person.
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we have a lookgr with those with disabilities. >> jackie shows us how bonds were formed at a stafford county pool. >> ready. >> the team members of the stafford county sheriff's star cadet program. rescue-and-recovery dives. they and the deputies showing them the aquatic ropes are also forging ponds of trust and communication that may be life-saving some day. >> it's a sense of pride for him and us. >> try to throw it on this side. it's very important because if they would come upon someone like joe, he can't speak clearly so they would have to figure out, you know, through a series of gestures or maybe the right pointed questions to ask, yes,
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no questions, they are learning that with og mthly meetings, but the interaction also helps with a bigger picture. sergeant darrell english says the groundwork of two-way communication laid here can help deputies be more effective in situations before they become a problem. >> something ever happen at their house, it comes up on the screen, the deputy knows it's one of our special star kids and they know what their problems are and how to interact with them. >> the star cadet program is community policed. it's helping deputies to better serve and protect all the citizens of stafford county. >> we take somehow to respect others. >> the office says it has received inquiries about this program from all over the united states. theog
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cou out, they can come back as advisers. looking to get outside for this last sunday in august. what! tom kierein has a look at the forecast coming up. >> where can did the summer go? >> the nfl quarterback that's
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about outage at the top of the hour. official haven't said why the system did go down. police are asking for your help in finding a 12-year-old boy. alexis rivera was last seen on the 18th avenue in hyattsville and a southwest airline flight was forced to make an emergency landing when part of the engine fell off the plane. no one was hurt on the saturday morning flight from new orleans to orlando. the plane is out of service as the ntsb investigates. we're kicking off another half hour of news 4 today with a check of the weather. >> tom kierein is standing by with an update. >> it's off to a beautiful start on this sunday morning, humidity not too bad. just a little bit of fog in some of the rural areas and we've got pleasant temperatures in the comfort zone. we
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bethesda. we're in the 60s from the mountains, shenandoah valley, and around the blue ridge and nearby suburbs, prince george's, montgomery, fairfax county, arlington county in the 60s. mid 70s right near the chesapeake bay and downtown. temperatures in the low 80s by 10:00. around 903:00, 4:00, upper 80s by 6:00 and this evening pleasant, under a clear sky, back down to the low 80s. look at rain chances in the week ahead coming up in a half hour. developing this morning. a construction worker is recovering after this, falling into a 7-foot hole with a big piece of machinery. it happened
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taft court montgomery county fire and rescue says a man was working on a bobcat when the machine suddenly lurched forward and went into the trench. the man was not hurt but it took two hours for crews to get him out safely. two people are dead after nearly back-to-back crashes yesterday morning in prince george's county. that's according to our news partners at wtop. one crash happened in district heights when a driver of an suv hit a toyota camera. the other crash involved a motorcycle and nissan sentra in oxon hill. the causes of both crashes are unknown. if you have any information about the crashes, contact police. we're learning more about the shooting death of dwayne wade's cousin. nikia aldridge. the shooting happened one day after wade took part in a town haul of chicago's violence epidemic that's taken hundreds of lives. nbc's morgan radford has more. >> we might have a person shot over here. >> reporter: hot shell casings on the ground and a community reeling once again. >> it's like there's no end to it.
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>> reporter: a weep mother ppo >> butyl that fly around and have no name, decided to find its way to her head. >> 32-year-old nikia aldridge pushing her baby in a stroller on chicago's south side after registering her kids at school. shot once in the head and once in the arm. >> possibly a female black. she might be shot in the head. >> aldridge caught in the crossfire when two men aimed at a third. >> what i heard was the gunshots first. bang, bang, bang, bang. >> reporter: a scene all too common but this time gaining major attention after she was later identified as cousin of three-time nba champ and hometown hero dwayne wade. >> my cousin was killed today in chicago. four kids lost their mom for no reason. >> just a few days before, wade spoke to a panel about the violence.
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together. >> it's deep rooted. this is something that didn't tomorrow. >> unfortunately, tomorrow came too soon for aldridge. >> her shooters are unidentified. her baby alive but alone, just one of hundreds of children who become casualties of chicago's violence. >> 449 people have been shot in chicago since the beginning of this year. almost half of them kids. struck while doing every day kid stuff, riding with dad on fathers day or even drawing on the sidewalk or holding their mother's hand. >> it's a stunning, astonishing tragic number. the fact is this is genocide before our very eyes. we're turning a did he have ear and a blind eye to it. >> as for nikia aldridge, a life taken too soon. morgan radford, nbc news, new york. >>
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kaepernridma nfl spokesman says players are stand during the national anthem. meanwhile, news out of cowboys camp. tony romo is expected to miss several weeks this season during a back injury. he broke a bone in his back in thursday's preseason game against the seattle seahawks. sources tell nbc's pro football talks that romo could miss six to ten weeks. rookie dak prescott is expected to start in his place. the threat of zika could be growing in south florida as storms head to that area and officials are warning that all that extra water could bring more mosquitos. the rain could wash away pesticides that have been sprayed throughout the miami-dade area.
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mosquitos also tend to breed cntverage this morni of th after math of that earthquake in italy. nearly 300 people have been killed and as rescue crews continue to sift through the rubble, 35 of them were laid to rest in a mass funeral. nbc's lucy cavanaugh was there. >> reporter: italy buried its dead today. the youngest nine-year-old julia. she died shielding her four-year-old sister who lived. ♪ ♪ >> they gathered to grieve and to remember, to comfort, hold, and bid farewell. a sweltering gym transformed into a makeshift chapel, before the bodies were returned to their hometowns for final good-byes. the ar
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among those who remain behind -. it came all down. >> reporter: he buried four of his relatives. >> two uncles and too cousins . they remain under the house. >> reporter: the youngest was 14. the town that with stood the test of time for centuries turned to rubble in an instant and now this sea of tents as all these people have to call home. the question is for how long. little sofia was born just three weeks before the quake. she won't remember the horror. her father will never forget. it was chaos he tells me. the walls crumbled. everything is gone. i was lucky he says. so many others died. but even here, life and light amid the destruction.
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after the summer games in rio is taking a
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hope solo is taking time off. the seattle reign made the announcement a few hours before the game last night. solo was suspended from the national team for six months earlier this week after callinged swedish team cowards following the loss in the olympics. the whistle-blower who
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jeopar jeopardy, is she's staying here. her information has been hacked. >> the russian runner are on the run. they believe they are being hunted by the russian government. >> translator: if something happens to us, it is not an accident. it is not capital. >> if you suddenly end up murdered, is that what you are talking about? >> translator: yes, yes, this is exactly what we have in mind. >> reporter: two years ago, she and her husband exposed the widespread use of the substances on the german television channel. dozens of athletes were excluded from the russian competition. a spokesman for putin
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three-year-old son for a rare interview. they are hiding here in the u.s., but their secret location has just been exposed. her online account at the world anti doping account, wada, which keeps track of her address was hacked. there's no proof yet who broke in, but one main suspect because at the same time other wada members were bombarded with emails containing malwear. experts say it's the work of hackers with close ties to russian intelligence. the same ones in fact who hacked theemocratic party this year. >> we expect them also behind the dnc incident, has a habit of using certain infrastructures that we have seen used in this incident. >> russian officials would
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good morning off to a cool start. we're in the 60s, but it will be a great pool day later today and again on monday and tuesday. great beach and pool weather. don't forget the sun block. we'll still have that pretty intense late august sun today today, tuesday, and there is cooler weather in the week ahead. we'll take a look at that, when it arrives and how long it will last. sunday today is next on nbc4. let's get a preview from willie gieft. >> my conversation with fred
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"today." thank you, willie. the faa is cracking down on drones. starting tomorrow, anyone who flies an unmanned aircraft system must be licensed, even if you've been flying a drone for years, come monday you could face fines of more than $1,000. pilots must be over the age of 16, pass a multiple choice test and be vetted by the tsa. any drone over half a pound must be registered. the u.s. navy has a submarine sponsored by the first lady. $2.7 billion subwas delivered yesterday. it took five years to build. the u.s.s. illinois is named after first lady michelle obama's home state.
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the subinvoed in the lives of its sailors and their families. today marks 53 years since martin luther king jr delivered his "i have a dream" speech in his march on washington. to celebrate, a free public screening starts today at 5:00 p.m. fort reno park. the event was organized by a wilson high school senior who wanted to continue the progress of his speech called on for five decades ago. we're just weeks away from one of the most anticipated museum openings in the district. the signature -- smithsonian's african-american culture museum is opening on september the 4th. the museum has an amazing collection of artifacts, highlighting centuries of history and you can get
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peek inside the museum later all morn access pass inside museum. i love the look of that building on national mall. >> very distinctive. >> very interesting to get inside as well. >> hi, tom kierein. >> get out and get to the museum, so maybe do a bike ride along the path and get some exercise. a rare morning in august that's comfortable. not too humid and temperatures are down into the 60s much of the region. there's a live view overlooking washington from our tower camera on this sunday morning. a few high clouds drifting over and there's a little bit of fog in some of the rural areas this morning. hour by hour, temperatures jumping in the low 80s. by 6:00 p.m., back down to the upper 80s and late tonight,ba
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a nice evening coming uand arou we're in the mid to upper 60s. reagan national is at 75. low to mid 70s right around the bay. don't have any showers or storms anywhere on storm team 4 radar. a wonderful day to get out and enjoy this weather. the school forecast for tomorrow at the bus stop in the morning, it will be pleasant. we'll be in the mid 70s with sunshine. by recess time, the upper 80s, by dismissal time, it will be in the low 90s on monday afternoon as all the students get back to school tomorrow. it will be up near 90 again on tuesday and wednesday. that's our next chance of rain is wednesday afternoon and evening. might get some thundershowers, maybe lingering thundershowers through midday thursday. cools down, highs mid 80s, turning noticeably less humid. labor day weekend looks gorgeous. highs in the low to mid 80s. with sunshine. it gets hot on labor
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mid 90s as we get into that first full week of september. summer not quite
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a home owner whose frustration is an all time help turned to us for help. >> when he fixed it, he ble
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they didn't cover it. >> james pickens and his wife are burning up literally. >> when the summer came, we had to use fans, window air conditioning units. >> that's because their central air conditioning wasn't working but they weren't worried because they purchased a home warranty and were paying $38 a month since last august for choice home warranty and according to their contract, system such as air can'ters are covered. at first, the company did put someone out. >> he put something on. it worked a while and it went out again. >> they sent out another repairman. things went from bad to worse. >> the electric box, fire shot out. he said we don't fix those. he said he was getting the cold shoulder from the warranty company who refused to send anyone back out to fix the a.c. that's when james called
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responds. >> i watch channel 4 and i see all the things you did for other people. well, let's give it a shot. >> reporter: we did a little digging on choice home warranty and learned in june of 2015, the new jersey attorney general, after receiving more than 1,000 complaints, reached a settlement with the company to pay the state nearly $800,000, including consumer restitution. according to the ag's office, choice home warranty allegedly used creative and deceptive means to deny their customers' claims. they also allege the company induced consumers to buy the so-called home warranties which were actually service contracts. we contacted choice home warranty numerous times by email and phone. they never answered our questions. they did reach out to james. >> i stayed on them. sooner or later, a tech came back out. >> and as of today, their tempers have cooled off. >> without you guys,
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we would still be in the same boat we were in. >> don't mess with the hoe gans. nbc4 responds reached out to choice home warranties for a comment. today, you can head out to the d.c. state fair. it's the 7th year of the free event. it show cases local agriculture and other talents. it happens at story park. d.c.'s 911 system is fully restored after an overnight outage. we're expecting to learning more about that outage at the top of the hour. the ntsb is investigating why a southwest plane lost part of its engine during a flight. no one was hurt. an emergency drill will suspend
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plaza and pentagon station. and alex is rivera, they are looking for him. >> it's not too humid. classic late summer weather. >> you find your friend with a pool and you go over there. that's what you do. >> even if you haven't called in a while, it's fine. >> just show up. >> it's all good. that's all for news 4 today. thank you so much for joining us. >> we'll be back at 9:00. until then, have a great sunday, everyone.
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. hillary clinton is a bigot. >> like a bomb fell down. >> just price gouging is morally bankrupt. >> i over exaggerated that st y story. good morning, and welcome to "sunday today." i'm willie geist. long time no see. i'm happy to be back after the olympic break. i'm no simone biles, i can't do a cartwheel. we'll catch up on the presidential campaign and we're hanging out with fred and his old stomping grounds as he

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